Techlife News
There Aren't Enough Academic Jobs, So NC State Tries To Help
Prospects for Ph.D. earners are dismal in the academic job market, with stories abounding of people who have doctorates serving lattes at Starbucks.
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August 18,2018
Bloomberg Businessweek
China Cleans Up Its (Trash) Act
Stricter rules on imported recycled goods have mainland businesses buying U.S. plants to get their waste.
4 min |
August 27, 2018
Mother Jones
Is It Time To Test Drugs On Pregnant Women?
Is it time to test drugs on pregnant women?
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September/October 2018
Mother Jones
The Anti Abortion 'Rescue' Movement Born Again
A radical wing of the anti-abortion crusade has returned, emboldened by the prospect of the end of Roe v. Wade.
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September/October 2018
Techlife News
Tinder Founders, Execs File Suit Against IAC And Match Group
The founders of the dating app Tinder, along with current executives and some of its employees, filed a lawsuit Tuesday against IAC/ InterActiveCorp and its Match Group subsidiary for allegedly bilking them by manipulating financial information to create a lowball estimate of Tinder’s value.
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August 18,2018
AppleMagazine
China Files WTO Challenge To US Tariffs On Solar Panels
China says it is challenging a U.S. tariff hike on solar panels before the World Trade Organization, adding to its sprawling conflicts with President Donald Trump over trade and technology.
1 min |
August 17, 2018
Mother Jones
A Growing Elder Care Crisis
A growing elder care crisis is making life hell for families. Maine is considering a radical solution.
10+ min |
September/October 2018
Mother Jones
Russia Hacked Our Voting System, Trump Has Done Nothing To Protect Them
Two years ago, our election systems were hacked. The gop has done nothing to protect us.
10+ min |
September/October 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek
Whiplash In Iran As US Sanctions Resume
With the nuclear deal in tatters, Iran faces an uncertain future.
5 min |
August 13, 2018
AppleMagazine
Trump's China Trade War Pulls Consumer Tech Into Crossfire
The prices of headphones, speakers, high-tech lighting and internet service could all go up if the U.S. trade war with China continues.
5 min |
August 10, 2018
National Enquirer
Meghan Caught In Another Drug Scandal!
She fumes as secret addict ‘sister’ runs off with dad’s dough
2 min |
August 20, 2018
Mother Jones
How Washington Left Students To Drown In Debt
Why is the nation's flagship debt forgiveness program failing the students it's supposed to help?
10+ min |
September/October 2018
Mother Jones
The Terror Connection
Does a plot to bomb Times Square reveal the next front in the war against ISIS?
10+ min |
September/October 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek
How To Be Trump's Treasury Secretary
If you want to understand U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Steven Mnuchin, you have to know why he sometimes avoids Pebble Beach.
10+ min |
August 13, 2018
New York magazine
10 Years After The Crash, We Are Still Living In The World It Brutally Remade
Sometimes you don’t know how deep the hole is until you try to fill it. In 2009, staring down what looked to anyone with a calculator like the biggest financial crisis since 1929, the federal government poured $830 billion into the economy—a spending stimulus bigger, by some measures, than the entire New Deal—and the country barely noticed. It registered the crisis, though. The generation that came of age in the Great Depression was indelibly shaped by that experience of deprivation, even though what followed was what Henry Luce famously called, in 1941, “the American Century.” He meant the 20th, and, to judge from our present politics, at least—“Make America Great Again” on one side of the aisle; on the other, the suspicion that the president is a political suicide bomber, destroying the pillars of government—he probably wouldn’t have made the same declaration about the 21st. A decade now after the beginning of what has come to be called the Great Recession, and almost as long since economic growth began to tick upward and unemployment downward, the cultural and psychological imprint left by the financial crisis looks as profound as the ones left by the calamity that struck our grandparents. All the more when you look beyond the narrow economic data: at a new radical politics on both left and right; at a strident, ideological pop culture obsessed with various apocalypses; at an internet powered by envy, strife, and endless entrepreneurial hustle; at opiates and suicides and low birthrates; and at the resentment, racial and gendered and otherwise, by those who felt especially left behind. Over the following pages, we cast a look back, and tried to take a seismic reading of the financial earthquake and its aftershocks, including those that still jolt us today.
10+ min |
August 6, 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek
Meet The New Pakistan, A Lot Like The Old Pakistan
Imran Khan brings a charismatic visage to the troubled country. But does he have a fresh vision?
6 min |
August 06, 2018
Techlife News
Facebook Finds ‘Sophisticated' Efforts To Disrupt Elections
Facebook said it has uncovered “sophisticated” efforts, possibly linked to Russia, to influence U.S. politics on its platforms.
3 min |
August 4, 2018
Techlife News
Trolls And Snowflakes: Once-Stuffy DC Embraces Tough Slang
The House speaker dismissed the actions of a U.S. president as merely “trolling.” And the nation’s attorney general knocked America’s university students as a bunch of sensitive “snowflakes.”
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Techlife News #352
Bloomberg Businessweek
Sometimes It Rains Rockets In Russia
Inhabitants of tiny villages 250 miles north of a Russian launchpad transform fallen space metal into everyday necessities
2 min |
July 30, 2018
New York magazine
Elizabeth Warren, Leader Of The Persistence
Elizabeth Warren’s full-body fight to defeat Trump.
10+ min |
July 23, 2018
Bloomberg Businessweek
Europe Is Right To Worry About The Trump-Putin Summit
The EU and NATO beware! Years before Trump became president, he and Putin were already simpatico.
8 min |
July 16, 2018
Techlife News
Facebook Faces U.K. Fine Over Its Privacy Scandal
Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook users.
2 min |
July 14, 2018
AppleMagazine
Facebook Faces U.K. Fine Over Its Privacy Scandal
Facebook is facing its first financial penalty for allowing the data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica to forage through the personal data of millions of unknowing Facebook users.
2 min |
AppleMagazine #350
Bloomberg Businessweek
A Trade War's Collateral Damage For China
Beijing’s actions against American brands could hurt their mainland partners, too.
6 min |
July 16, 2018
Techlife News
Facebook: 800K Users May Have Had Bug Unblock Blocked People
Facebook says more than 800,000 users may have been affected by a bug that unblocked people they previously had blocked.
1 min |
July 07,2018
AppleMagazine
Federal Facebook Probe Now Includes FBI, Sec
A federal probe into Facebook’s sharing of user data with Cambridge Analytica now involves the FBI, the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department, the Washington Post reported.
1 min |
July 06, 2018
Reason magazine
How Not To Build A Jail
The D.C. jail has been a disaster for more than 100 years. Can a new jail avoid the mistakes of the past?
10+ min |
December 2016
AppleMagazine
Why They Fight: US And China Brawl Over High Technology
To understand why the United States and China stand on the brink of a trade war, consider the near-death experience of American Superconductor Corp.
4 min |
July 06, 2018
Reason magazine
The U.S Needs More Immigrants
Without young workers, the economy can’t grow.
9 min |
August/September 2018
Mother Jones
As America Guts Solar Programs, China Turns Up The Heat
As the Trump Administration guts America’s solar programs, China is turning up the heat.
10+ min |